Title: Multiple columns with different categories
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Multiple columns with different categories

 *  [mmayernick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmayernick/)
 * (@mmayernick)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-columns-with-different-categories/)
 * Hey all,
    I’ve just started learning WordPress and I am wondering if there is
   a way to set up the main page to have two or three different columns and each
   of them display a different category. The idea is to have the latest posts from
   each category in their own column. Thanks in advance.

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-columns-with-different-categories/#post-101620)
 * Yup.
    I’d suggest grabbing the Trident template from here: [http://www.atthe404.com/](http://www.atthe404.com/)
   Then you need to look at the category tags, and place those in the side columns
   maybe ? [http://wiki.wordpress.org/TemplateTags?#Categoryx20.tags](http://wiki.wordpress.org/TemplateTags?#Categoryx20.tags)
 *  [RobotHero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robothero/)
 * (@robothero)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-columns-with-different-categories/#post-101683)
 * You know, I’m thinking of making a plugin that will make this easier.
    What I
   would do in the meantime is use a cheap work-around via SSI. Use the XBitHack
   so the SSI is processed in index.html. Create an index2.php file where you’ve
   removed most of the html except that which appears inside the Loop. In an index.
   html file, make the three columns contain this code: `< !--#include virtual="/
   wordpress/index2.php?cat=1" -->` `< !--#include virtual="/wordpress/index2.php?
   cat=2" -->` `< !--#include virtual="/wordpress/index2.php?cat=3" -->`

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 * Last reply from: [RobotHero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robothero/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-columns-with-different-categories/#post-101683)
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